WiP Poster

When connecting the physical experience of museums and exhibitions with relevant digital information, creating engaging exhibitions is a challenge shared by both curators and interaction designers. There is a wealth of artifacts scattered across museums, their archives, and remote locations. Additionally, online repositories hold a multitude of digital cultural heritage content about these artifacts. The challenge of creating an exhibition lies in selecting related artifacts, combining them with available or proprietary information, and arranging them in a way that serves an intended story line. Common practice dictates the creation to be limited to a set of curators working together. We propose a visitor-centered design approach including a physical interaction space where visitors can browse archived objects and put together their own exhibitions with regards to a unique or given story line. We conducted an initial field study and report findings regarding the likes and dislikes of visitors.